Alan Gates created HIVE-10010: --------------------------------- Summary: Alter table results in NPE [hbase-metastore branch] Key: HIVE-10010 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-10010 Project: Hive Issue Type: Bug Components: Metastore Affects Versions: hbase-metastore-branch Reporter: Alan Gates Assignee: Alan Gates
Doing an alter table results in: {code} 2015-03-18 10:45:54,189 ERROR [main]: exec.DDLTask (DDLTask.java:failed(512)) - java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.StorageDescriptor.<init>(StorageDescriptor.java:239) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.Table.<init>(Table.java:270) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.Table.deepCopy(Table.java:310) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.Table.copy(Table.java:856) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask.alterTable(DDLTask.java:3329) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask.execute(DDLTask.java:329) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.Task.executeTask(Task.java:160) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.TaskRunner.runSequential(TaskRunner.java:88) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.launchTask(Driver.java:1644) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.execute(Driver.java:1403) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.runInternal(Driver.java:1189) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:1055) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:1045) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.hbase.TestHBaseMetastoreSql.table(TestHBaseMetastoreSql.java:89) {code} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)